Obeisances

Word OBEISANCES
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Definitions and meanings of "Obeisances"

What do we mean by obeisances?

Demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude.

An obedient attitude.

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The word "obeisances" in example sentences

After an interval it is commanded to pay its obeisances or in other words, to "salaam," which it does by going right under water. ❋ Unknown (1912)

The pharaoh recalled the obeisances of Herhor, the looks of Mefres, and the tones of voice which both used. ❋ Boles��aw Prus (1879)

In fact, the Chief Actuary appointed by Ronald Reagan in whose library they met, and to whom they paid the expected obeisances co-wrote a paper last year explaining that the program's relatively minor long-term funding problems can easily be fixed - mainly by lifting the current payroll tax cap, which was established before we saw the massive upward redistribution of income of the last two decades. ❋ RJ (2011)

Without them, to be frank, our politicians wouldn't have needed to go crawling around summer parties and weddings offering obeisances. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The political intention of these passages is to exalt belief in a unified divine force unlimited by body or image, setting believers apart from those who practice sacrifices and make obeisances to idols. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While the CofE must cease its obeisances to the more hardline Protestants in its midst, and perhaps revisit its inheritance from the Caroline church of Archbishop Laud 57, it doesn't need to undertake any major revisions to the Prayer Book, the Thirty-Nine Articles, or anything else of import. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But when writing to a stranger or, in an even more egregious example, to the alluring intellectual Nuala Costello, he flexes his brain as if he were the "After" photo of a Charles Atlas course for intellect: "My obeisances where obeisances are due, and thee I embrace, as Sordello Virgil, la 've il minor s'appilgilia, and if you write me a very nice letter I'll give you the reference." ❋ Unknown (2009)

All three major candidates have already paid their obeisances to AIPAC and taken hard pro-Israel lines, just so they don't get attacked like Dean did when he advocated for a more even-handed approach. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Happily, once you've performed your obeisances, you'll then have an opportunity to drink deeply of Tim Burton's mad genius. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Simon Glover, an ancient and esteemed burgess of Perth, somewhat stricken in years and increased in substance, received from young and old the homage due to his velvet jerkin and his golden chain, while the well known beauty of Catharine, though concealed beneath her screen — which resembled the mantilla still worn in Flanders — called both obeisances and doffings of the bonnet from young and old. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If it's for discussing LBJ without paying due homage to Dr. King in the same breath, they've gone back and made their obeisances, haven't they? ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

BAS DE SOIE — silk stockings — who, while they remained at some distance making the most graceful obeisances, advanced to the feet of his lovely mistress, and dropping on one knee presented, on a golden salver gorgeously chased, a scented BILLET. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is a beast that feeds on literature and demands to be palliated by certain kinds of ritual obeisances, which are spelled out in rubrics and composition texts. ❋ Bruce Schauble (2007)

We therefore offer our respectful obeisances unto Your lotus feet. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He made his clownish obeisances with a double portion of reverence, and then awaited the opening of the awful scene. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Addresses and odes were also sung and recited to me from the stage, and the performers representing the great personages prostrated themselves and made obeisances. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

That's natural enough, but there's something to be said for insisting that the word be used as an adjective, as one of the small obeisances we make to the capriciousness of grammar. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The doorman ushered him into his father's presence with deeper than usual obeisances, or so he fancied. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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